Just realised I've been mis-reading the title of The Travel thread & I was just going to look at it when I realised my mistrake.
So this thread is for what I thought it was:
WHEN would you like to travel to in TIME, to see or do what?
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I'm not sure.. Maybe go back to when the cavemen were painting in the French caves & write "Kilroy was here" using the original paintstuffs.
It's tempting not to do the obvious ones - like telling yourself how to make loads of money or warning people about terrorist attacks, but then you'd mess with the space time continuum and might get back to the future to find yourself dead.
Based on the way comedy has gone, I'd probably only travel back a few years and warn Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross not to ring Andrew Sachs.
And they'd say 'We hadn't even thought of doing that, what a great idea!'
Basically the whole thing was RC's fault. Tut. 
Quote: zooo @ July 9 2012, 6:18 PM BSTAnd they'd say 'We hadn't even thought of doing that, what a great idea!'
Basically the whole thing was RC's fault. Tut.
Acutally, I'm secretly pleased that comedy has become awful. When I get rejection letters, I can convince myself that is was down to ideological reasons and nothing to do with my lack of talent.
Poo through your letter box does not count as a rejection letter.
Quote: Nil Putters @ July 9 2012, 6:50 PM BSTPoo through your letter box does not count as a rejection letter.
The poo I can handle (eew!), it's when BBC 3 pours petrol and fireworks through my letterbox that I get concerned. 
Quote: billwill @ July 9 2012, 5:43 PM BSTMaybe go back to when the cavemen were painting in the French caves & write "Kilroy was here" using the original paintstuffs.
In orange, presumably?
I'd go back to America before the whiteman turned up
I'd tell the native people that one day soon some White pilgrims will turn up on the coast
You will be tempted to welcome them, give them help and gifts even
Don't
Kill each and every one of them - spare nobody
Thanks lofthouse youve left us with 5 centuries brutal opression by our savage red indian masters
Way to go Big Chief Watta Dick
Quote: lofthouse @ July 9 2012, 8:12 PM BSTKill each and every one of them - spare nobody
You Europeans are also so quick to rush into genocidal violence ...
Quote: DaButt @ July 9 2012, 8:26 PM BSTYou Europeans are also so quick to rush into genocidal violence ...
Umm yeah
That's my whole point!!
We were utter scum. Murdering filth. A cancer.
But they welcomed us with open arms on the whole
Big big f**kin mistake
Quote: lofthouse @ July 9 2012, 8:33 PM BSTUmm yeah
That's my whole point!!
We were utter scum. Murdering filth. A cancer.
But they welcomed us with open arms on the whole
Big big f**kin mistake
I was referring to genocidal killing of Europeans, not by Europeans.
I think your view of the colonization of North America is a bit skewed.
Wouldn't mind being at Stonehenge to find out how they really did get those stones to Wiltshire from Wales.
Knocking around in Renaissance Italy and commission a couple of Leonardo's.
Be present at the contest of egos between Henry 8 and Francis 1 that was the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Another Tudorish one: hang out Shakespeare and make sure he writes it all.
Ride with the Mogol hordes.
Spend some time in feudal Japan.
Oh, and maybe the biggie - Palestine c. 30 AD. Meet the guy that told people to be nice to each other. That would rock.
You'd end up as one of the crims on the other crosses, shouting "To be or not to be, that is the question!"
I would go back to Shakespeare's time and pay him to let me put my name on all the manuscripts.
Then when I returned and somebody wrote a really bad play, they'd say 'It's good, but it's no Renegade Carpark.'